The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-01
FARM AND FlREslDE,


Clean stoves when cold with any
stove polish mixed with alum water.
Farming is trade which has to be
learned if the worker at it would be
effective.
Cookies: Two cups of sugar, two
eggs. one cup of butter, one-half cup Of
sweet milk. one teaspoonful of soda.
"A tea made ofripe or dried whortle-
berries, and drank in the place of
water, is a speedy cure for many forms
of scrofulous difficulties.
Nervous Headache: Pour cup OF
hot water over a hearing teaspoon Of
ginger. Put in little cream and sugar
and drink the tea. -ErchdRge.
AS a result Of experiments at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, it
is found that when the mere cost of
the feed is considered, the diet con-
sisting of skinned milk and corn meal
alone is the cheapest food for pigs.
Tomato Toast: Run quart OF
tomatoes through the colander, put in
stew pan, season with butter, pepper
and salt. Cut slices of bread, toast,
butter, and lay on hot dish, and pour
the tomatoes on the toast. I,ldiaaaapo-
lis Journal.
Eggs designed for Matching should
be collected as soon as laid, either in
warm or cold weather; they should be
kept on soft material, in moderately
cool place, no one resting on another,
and turned every day. Farm, Field
and Stockman.
Apple Toast: From slices of dry
bread cut round cakes, spread with
butter, then cover with slices of tart,
ripe apples, sprinkle with sugar, Gin
namon and bits of butter. Serve hot
with cream sweetened and favored
with nutmeg. indianapolis Sentinel.
"A remedy for chicken cholera is
given in the following from popular
poultry book: Use the Ratchet on all
well developed cases. Hyposulphite of
soda, four parts; mandrake root, red
pepper, resin, pulverized rhubarb, each
one part. Give each fowl one teaspoon
full and repeat every hour until re-
lieved."
To make peach pie, peel the fruit,
cut in halves and lay as closely as pos
sible over the crust in deep pie-plate,
with the open part upward. Sprinkle
with sugar to taste. Then beat well
together large teacupfrl of milk, two
tablespoonful of sugar, one egg, a lit
tie vanilla and pinch of salt. and pour
this over the peaches and bake without
any upper crust. Eat when partly cool.
Canned peaches can be thus used quite
well when fresh ones are out of season.
Indianapolis Journal.
Ice Cream Cake Take the whites
of eight eggs, beat to stiff froth, two
cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup
sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup
corn starch, two teaspoonsful baking
powder. Cream the butter and sugar,
sift flour, corn-starch and baking pow
der, add the beaten whites of the eggs
last. Bake in jelly tins. For the icing,
boil four cups sugar until it will candy,
tiuO pun ONCl VI lOuE
eggs, and add one teaspoonful pulver-
lied citrc acid. Stir until cold and
spread between layers. Boston Budget.
Chicken Pie: Cut the chickens in
joints; blanch them with boiling water,
season with pepper and salt, mixed
tablespoonful of chopped mushrooms.
parsley and onions. or a larger quanti-
ty of this seasoning can be used; add
few slices of ham or bacon. A layer
below and one above the chicken ar
ranged in the pie dish is best. Fill it
up with veal gravy seasoned with a
few mushrooms; put in also the yelks
of six hard-boiled eggs. A little lemon
juice may also be added. Cover with
puff, paste and bake rather more than
an hour. Boston Budget.